Christian Living
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Designed to Pray: Creative Ways to Engage with God- Book Review & Giveaway!
by Sally Matheny Designed to Pray Is your prayer life lacking passion and purpose? Then this book is for you. And if you’d like to learn more creative ways to express your prayers, then this book is definitely for you! I’m delighted to share with you about Designed to Pray: Creative Ways to Engage with God, and I’ll be giving away a copy of the book. Do you know why you should be excited? Because it’s a fantastic book! Award-winning author, Kelly O’Dell Stanley, incorporates her graphic design skills with her heart for prayer in this eight-week, interactive workbook. There aren’t any rules in using the book and she encourages…
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Book Review of Building Your Strengths & Three Giveaways!
by Sally Matheny Not only are Thomas Nelson publishers blessing me with wonderful books, but they want to bless my blog readers as well. This month, they’ve sent, not one, but six beautiful, Women of Faith Bible study books to me. Three for me, and three to give away! How cool is that? Building Your Strengths is the one I’m working through now. I’ll be giving away a copy of it and a copy of Praying with Power, as well as Giving God Your Future. Look for giveaway details in this post. Strengths and weaknesses We all have them. The problem is we tend to overestimate the weaknesses and…
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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
The best Christmas pageant ever happened in the year 1999. Well, it is one of the best, and it makes me cry every time I think of it. Not because of the angels in their white poster-board wings and crooked tinsel halos. Nor was it the tiny, shepherds carrying ninja sticks, or the wise men wearing refurbished Burger King crowns.Even though “Mary” held the baby doll as if it was Jesus himself; that year, it was all about “Joseph.” The Sweet Siblings Three, sweet siblings began attending our church. They came to VBS in the summer and continued to come almost every Sunday after that, as long as they had…
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Trusting God Through a Miscarriage (Part 2 of 2)
by Sally Matheny October is National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. In my last post, I shared with you the excitement of my third pregnancy and the devastation of a miscarriage. Today, I want to encourage you by sharing another portion of my miscarriage journey. If you’re dealing with an infant or pregnancy loss, you already know some days are hard. Really hard. I promise you, it will get better. I hope you’ll find encouragement here and in a resource I’ve included at the bottom of the post. And, if you’re someone who has never experienced a miscarriage, and are at a loss of knowing how to help someone…
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Trusting God Through a Miscarriage (Part 1 of 2)
October is National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. In remembrance of that, I want to share with you a portion of my own miscarriage journey. Perhaps you can relate. Hopefully, you’ll be encouraged. Excitement Not even the startling, cold lubricant squeezed onto my belly could stifle my excited chatter. I was on the verge of being the first to hear a great secret—the gender of our third baby! Earlier that day, I had taken our seven-and nine-year-old daughters to a sitter. They desperately wanted to go with me to my 12-week check-up. I told them I wasn’t due for an ultrasound for several weeks. I assured them they could…
